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Mediaite reports:
A slew of private text messages from current and former Fox News hosts were made public on Tuesday night after a judicial hearing officer unredacted parts of a motion filed by Smartmatic. “Think about how incredible our ratings would be if Fox went ALL in on STOP THE STEAL,” Jesse Watters texted Fox’s Greg Gutfeld in December 2020.
In a text the day after the election, Watters expressed concern about audience backlash after Fox was the first network to call Arizona for Biden. “There’s an audience uprising vs. Fox like I’ve never seen,” he texted a producer.
A producer at the network told Watters that “you cannot, under any circumstances, cast doubt” on the election because “the powers that be are not having any of it.” On the same day, Watters texted Fox colleague Pete Hegseth, who is now Secretary of Defense. “By the way, did you get the memo about not saying fraud?” Watters asked.
Read the full article. There’s more. No paywall. Smartmatic is suing for $2.7 billion. In 2023, Fox settled with Dominion for $787 million.
Today, 468 pages of filings from Smartmatic’s lawsuit against Fox News were unredacted. I went through them to try to highlight new internal text messages, emails & depositions
In one message, for example, Jeanine Pirro called Sean Hannity an “egomaniac”https://t.co/o0oY2XxLHu
— Jeremy Barr (@jeremymbarr) August 20, 2025
Pirro also said in a message (to Hannity) that she was “TIRED OF THE CENSORSHIP” and “EMBARRASSED” by Fox’s election call for Biden after her Nov. 7, 2020 show was cancelled: pic.twitter.com/PTHhdub2g8
— Jeremy Barr (@jeremymbarr) August 20, 2025
Pirro was extremely angry after her ex-husband Albert Pirro was not initially on Trump’s pardon list. She talked to Eric Trump about it. She texted the girlfriend of Bernard Kerik, who had been pardoned, to call him out. pic.twitter.com/llt7S1dQY4
— Jeremy Barr (@jeremymbarr) August 20, 2025
Calling out Sidney Powell’s claims, Jesse Watters drew his limit: “The minute you drop Soros, the Clinton Foundation and Venezuela in the same sentence, you lost even me.” pic.twitter.com/TSWm4kK6Tc
— Jeremy Barr (@jeremymbarr) August 20, 2025
Fox News anchor Bret Baier texted president Jay Wallace about some of Maria Bartiromo’s election tweets: “We need to fact-check this crap.” pic.twitter.com/2qAe1pIaT7
— Jeremy Barr (@jeremymbarr) August 20, 2025
One other thing to flag: Debi Dobbs, wife of the late Fox Business host Lou Dobbs, appears to have texted his producers and told them them what to put on the screen (“The 4 names Sidney [Powell] wants you to name”) pic.twitter.com/tu74p2CXrS
— Jeremy Barr (@jeremymbarr) August 20, 2025
“I think Fox did an excellent job of reporting on what was going on at the time,” Maria Bartiromo said in a deposition. “I am certainly very proud of my work.”
— Jeremy Barr (@jeremymbarr) August 20, 2025
Statement from Fox News: “The evidence shows that Smartmatic’s business and reputation were badly suffering long before any claims by President Trump’s lawyers on FOX News and that Smartmatic grossly inflated its damage claims to generate headlines and chill free speech. Now, in…
— Jeremy Barr (@jeremymbarr) August 20, 2025